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Lab steers Harvard Med’s mobile program toward “ambitious goal” 11 Apr 2013 | 08:21 pm
Lab steers Harvard Med’s mobile program toward “ambitious goal”
Looking for a life cycle in social enterprise 11 Apr 2013 | 05:02 am
Maybe you’ve never owned a share of stock. Maybe you somehow avoided seeing Wall Street or The Social Network. Maybe you never ran a lemonade stand. But still, you know [...]
Names places with reverence 31 Mar 2013 | 02:30 am
Globalization and digitization are making physical location less and less significant to human experience. Are we building a world where there is no “there” there? How will we know what [...]
Call out the regime of place 18 Mar 2013 | 05:51 pm
Globalization and digitization are making physical location less and less significant to human experience. Are we building a world where there is no “there” there? How will we know what [...]
Play together for the sake of the game 7 Mar 2013 | 10:59 am
Many of our most intense competitive experiences come from sports, whether we’re playing them ourselves or watching them on TV. But sports provide profound collaborative experiences as well. Could ath...
Encounter cooperation 7 Mar 2013 | 09:15 am
Ahead of our session with the Community of Democracies and the U.S. State Department, Insight Labs is investigating various systems that have managed to balance the needs of individuals with [...]
Let form follow family 7 Mar 2013 | 12:57 am
Later this month, Insight Labs will work with the Community of Democracies to consider how intergovernmental organizations could operate more effectively in the 21st century. To inspire us, we decided...
UX for Good 2013: Teaching the heart 5 Mar 2013 | 01:23 am
Everyone knows we’ll need some of the world’s top design minds to build an education system for the 21st century. Much of that talent is currently being applied to improve [...]
The age of agency? 5 Feb 2013 | 01:42 am
We like to think America has become more democratic over time. And there’s a big piece of evidence to say that’s it’s so: universal suffrage. When the country was founded, [...]
Veteran Advice: Preparing for Take-Off 31 Jan 2013 | 02:55 am
Participating in an Insight Lab can be a terrific experience, but disorienting. After all, you’ve agreed to collaborate at lightning speed with a roomful of accomplished strangers to solve a [...]